Jim Thompson
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Born in 1906 to a sheriff-turned-oilman father and raised across Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, Thompson received only sporadic formal schooling before entering the University of Nebraska as a gifted-student participant, a brief academic stint that never eclipsed his self-directed literary apprenticeship. He produced more than thirty hard-boiled novels from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, with tit…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources